feel like you were walking in the footsteps with these characters. you also and i was aware of this when i watched those scenes, abd and they re heart-rending scenes. but i knew that both your parents died when you were pretty young. your mom when you were about 10, your father when you were 20. that again must have played into all this. you ve been through a lot of suffering when you were young. well, i think that if you can take what you ve been given, and i m sure that in many ways it has made me more empathetic or have deeper compassion to be able to translate that. for many years i got to play an angel on television on touched by an angel. it s not often, i think, that you get what you love to do and to be able to combine it with what you believe. and to be able to do it with the person you love. it really has been extraordinary. mark, you ve been responsible for some of the biggest hits on television the voice is yours. just before that launched all the critics saying
i m sure that in many ways it has made me more empathetic or have deeper compassion to be able to translate that. for many years i got to play an angel on television on touched by an angel. it s not often, i think, that you get what you love to do and to be able to combine it with what you believe. and to be able to do it with the person you love. it really has been extraordinary. mark, you ve been responsible for some of the biggest hits on television. the voice is yours. i remember seeing you just before that launched and all the critics saying it s not going to work. i saw you at a press day in pasadena. i was doing america s got talent, and i had a chat with you. you said it s going to be a massive hit. they re all wrong. i remember thinking this guy s got this extraordinary unshakable confidence. you had no scintilla of doubt whatsoever. and it became a monster hit. same with the apprentice . i did the apprentice first season.